Numerous gospel performers would study there in the following years.

Mahalia Jackson becomes the first gospel performer with her own television show, the Mahalia Jackson Show, on CBS.

Mahalia Jackson and the Drinkard Singers are the first gospel performers to appear at the Newport Folk Festival.

In fact, the whole concept of "rocking" an audience, or "rocking out," involves triggering ecstatic audience reactions, as gospel performers do when they "rock" a church.

The show was commissioned by British network Channel 4, by the network's commissioning editor, Religion Elizabeth Clough, to follow a talent show for gospel performers.

The program has been a showcase for regionally- and nationally-known African-American gospel performers, and has also featured appearances from political and social figures.

He was influenced in his early career by gospel performers such as: The Winans, Commissioned, and Vanessa Bell Armstrong.

The gospel performers on tomorrow's program will harmonize in old and recent styles.

By the time it got to Brooklyn, "Gospel" was a huge show that had some of the country's best gospel performers singing the young composer's fevered Oedipal hymns.

The record is notable as containing some of the last recordings of Professor Alex Bradford, a well-known gospel performer.